[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN Reform: Role of ITU

[Chun Eung Hwi]

Dear Dave Crocker and Michael Froomkin,

> This line of thinking continues to ignore two, fundamental constraints:
> 
> 1.  The hierarchical nature of the DNS requires a single, logical control 
> over allocation/assignment policy.  Any effort to "devolve and share power" 
> must be designed in a way that is compatible with this technical 
> constraint.  However no proposal for this has been put forward to permit 
> honest, diligent analysis of its operational feasibility.

At initial stage, we could consider the regional distribution of root
servers (copies of A-root). Here, we could also increase the present
number of those root servers. And at the next stage, we should consider
any architectural improvement such as distributed root servers. Dave, why
don't you contribute for that?


> 2.  The ability to reach consensus about things is not much better at the 
> regional level than it is at the global level.  For one thing, the 
> construct of a "region" is often quite artificial.  For another, members of 
> a region often have widely disparate needs and goals.  Again, any proposal 
> for devolution and sharing of power needs to attend to this core fact of life.

So far as RIRs are concered, we have already done in that way. Obviously,
"region" is quite artificial as much as the formation of ICANN. Global
community is much more diverse and complicated than a region has disparate
needs and goals. ICANN is too much centralized to be a global consensus
structure.


Regards,

Chun Eung Hwi
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